One of the most effective forms of industrial or military sabotage
limits itself to damage that can never be thoroughly proven—or even
proven at all—to be anything deliberate. It is like an invisible
political movement; perhaps it isn’t there at all. If a bomb is wired to
a car’s ignition, then obviously there is an enemy; if public building
or a political headquarters is blown up, then there is a political
enemy. But if an accident, or a series of accidents, occurs, if
equipment merely fails to function, if it appears faulty, especially in a
slow fashion, over a period of natural time, with numerous small
failures and misfirings—then the victim, whether a person or a party or a
country, can never marshal itself to defend itself.
-- Philip K Dick
-- Philip K Dick
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